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On 15 May, the Focus School students told the KPP Director about their run, and heard more about the Kasiisi Porridge Project. Then, under Yvonne Pemberton’s supervision, the winners of the run presented her with a cheque for £1549.10. What an extraordinary amount! The other winners here of course are the children of Kasiisi as […]

In April this year pupils from Years 3 and 4 (8 and 9 year olds) from Focus School, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, ran 600 metres round their local cricket pitch, in Potton, Bedfordshire. In chilly but dry conditions, all of them completed the course. Very well done! The 10 and 11 year-old children, in Years 5 and […]

We are delighted to receive the second tranche of our £4000 grant from the Marr-Munning Trust. This £2000 is significant not only in terms of providing a term’s worth of porridge for 1500 children, but frees up other funds to continue the vital development of the school farm and related initiatives.

Our 10th Anniversary Grand Draw had 22 excellent prizes and produced a profit of £1300 for the Project. Longterm supporter Lynda Dolwin was the lucky winner of the beautiful African quilt, (see it in full in the second photo here) created and sewn for the Kasiisi Project by two Connecticut quilters, Angelina Deluca and Laura McCarrick.

Over 80 people attended the concert held at Howgills Friends Meeting House in Letchworth, Herts, UK, on Saturday 7 March, to mark the 10th Anniversary of the Kasiisi Porridge Project. From right to left are Norwegian mezzo soprano Marianne Andersen, pianist Simon Marlow and violist Clare Gardiner. The three musicians gave us a stirring and entertaining variety of […]

Abel, with help from the agriculture students Alec and Dinah from Fort Portal’s Mountains of the Moon University, break for a photo on the land which was slashed and cleared in January (2015) ready for the next step.

UK visitors (family of Kate’s former teaching colleague Jane Marriott, on the right of the photo), currently working at Fort Portal hospital, were shown the farm by Elizabeth Ross in January. They were particularly impressed by the effect of the chicken fertiliser on the new growth of the maize, planted alongside one of the two […]

Dinah and Alec, from the Mountains of the Moon University, Fort Portal, are currently working as interns, and staying in the new onsite accommodation, funded mainly by Peter Stebbings Memorial Trust. Their cooking gas is provided via the biodigester, built last year with the help of West Point cadets. The farm dog is called Police.

The Souter Charitable Trust, founded and run by Sir Brian and Lady Souter, have kindly awarded the Kasiisi Porridge Project the sum of £2000 to continue our work on the feeding programme. We are very grateful to them, and happy that they have had confidence in us for the third time.

Our top supporter school, the Cambridge International School, in the village of Little Abington, just south of Cambridge UK, produced no less than £515 from their 2014 Christmas collection and sales of breaktime bacon rolls. This is truly a great school, funding many mugs of porridge, again! Thank you.